By Brian (Ruibo) Wu Surprisingly, placebo, which refers to treatments that do not have any therapeutic value, plays a significant role in modern health care. In general, patients will not be told whether they are taking a placebo. In common knowledge, once …
Read More »New Generation Portable Power Source
By Brian (Ruibo) Wu In recent years, the mobile game market has been developing rapidly, but the constraint, battery capacity, has remained unsolved. In recent years, many mobile product companies have focused on portable power sources to increase the game experience. Recently, …
Read More »NASA Renames Cosmic Objects to Eliminate Discriminatory Language
By Brian (Ruibo) Wu According to CNET’s report, as the society tries to phase out discriminatory rhetoric, NASA is also considering to rename certain galaxies and nebulas since their unofficial names contain terms that are inherently exclusionary. NASA’s spokesperson announced that as …
Read More »Space Debris
By Brian (Ruibo) Wu Even though people may not see anything when they look up into the sky, there is a huge amount of garbage in the orbits around Earth. Abandoned satellites’ debris, rocket parts, and other man-made debris are the main …
Read More »Deep Space Atomic Clock
By Brian (Ruibo) Wu A sample of a deep space atomic clock was recently launched into space and is expected to become the most stable atomic clock ever built. The miniature atomic clock, which could be installed on future spacecraft or satellites, …
Read More »Real-time AI Recognition Program — YOLO v3
By Brian (Ruibo) Wu YOLO, as known as You Only Look Once, is a new generation real-time object detection and recognition algorithm that was invented by Joseph Redmon in 2015. On a Pascal Titan X, it processes images at 30 FPS and …
Read More »India’s One Sided Trade War
By David Zhang India has been at China’s throat recently in retaliation for the skirmish at Galwan Valley, where Chinese forces captured and killed a group of Indian soldiers. This unprovoked attack reignited conflict between China and India, and India has been …
Read More »Antiviral Drug Shows Efficacy Against Coronavirus
By Kevin Zhang An antiviral drug called remdesivir is the first drug to show promising effectiveness in combating COVID-19. According to a news release by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases on April 29, preliminary results from a clinical trial …
Read More »Feds Spent 20 Years Warning Edenville Dam Was in Danger Before it Collapsed
By Alice Zhong Boyce Hydro took over operations of Edenville Dam in 2004 and, according to documents filed by FERC officials (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission), the company had not come up with adequate plans for increasing spillway capacity in the past 13 …
Read More »Artificial Blood Cells
By David Zhang Blood is a key component of our body, composed of blood cells suspended in blood plasma which carry around oxygen for our body parts. However, this means that if too much is lost, or the blood is affected by …
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